. Piano Basics
Get a Quick Start with Some Piano Basics
Knowing some piano basics will help make it easier for you when you start actually taking piano lessons. Of course, you can start taking lessons even if you do not know anything about the piano, but having some basic information beforehand will help to make it much easier on you.
The Notes
Music is a language. When you learn to play the piano you really need to be able to read music. Music is written on a staff. A staff has five lines and four spaces. At the beginning of the staff is either a treble clef or a bass clef. In piano the treble clef is played with your right hand and the bass clef is played with your left hand.
Notes are placed on the staff to tell you what notes to play. Each line and space of the staff represents a specific note. From the bottom up the notes for the lines are E-G-B-D-F. From the bottom up the notes for the spaces are F-A-C-E.
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Notes on the Keyboard
Once you can recognize the notes on a piece of music, you will need to know how those notes correspond to the keys of the keyboard. When you look at a keyboard of a piano you will notice that there are sets of keys. There are two black keys together and then three black keys together.
The black keys are used to play sharp or flat notes. The white keys are regular notes. In each set the white key to the left of the two black key set is C. Once you find C you can find all the other notes.
Starting at C, moving to the right one key you will have D-E-F-G-A-B and then you will be at C again. It may seem complicated, but once you look at the keyboard you will see it is really simple.
Playing a Simple Song
Once you can read music and you know where the notes are on the keyboard you can play a simple song. When you first start playing the piano you may want to jump right in and use both hands. Generally, though, for the beginner, you will focus more on getting comfortable with the keyboard and being able to match the music to the keys.
With that in mind you will start playing with just your right hand. Starting in the middle of the keyboard on C, which is middle C. Look at your music. Let’s say it starts with an A, which if you remember will be shown by a note in the second space on the staff. To find A on the keyboard you will go from middle C up to A. That is your starting point.
You should try to use all your fingers to play. Avoid the temptation to peck at the keys with just one finger. This is all part of learning the technique of playing the piano.
Our song starts with A. Let’s say the next notes are F-B-A. Play the first A with your middle finger, F with your thumb, B with your ring finger and then A with your middle finger again. Congratulations you played your first “song”.
Piano basics really is just about getting to know the piano. You can never be a good player if you do not feel comfortable with the piano itself. You must be able to read music well and match it up to the keyboard.
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